Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-11
The Pasteur Methed.


method of inoculation for hydrophobia
have only served to bring out status
tics which show that the method Is
eminently successful. At recent
meeting of the French Academy M.
Peter attacked the Pasteur treatment
BY pointing out several instances OF
"intensive" incubation which mis-
carried and resulted in death. A
professor from Vienna, who had come
to Paris to investigate the Pasteur
discovery, also, after having made
number of experiments, is no longer
a partisan of the Pasteurean theory.
He sa VS. that frequent inoculations OF
virulent animal virus are not without
danger to the patient. The average
of thirty cases OF deaths from rabies
we're recorded last year in Paris, and
M. Peter deduces from this fact that
the people and the Faculty should
not hastily accept, as has DIR. Vul-
plan, the efficacy of a method as yet
not satisfactorily proven to be even
moderately certain. At this, DR..
Vulpian met all the objections and
exceptions OF M. Peter by an aston
ishing array of data in favor
of the efficacy of the Pasteur
system. He said that because
Nj. Peter could show that here and
there case of rabies from the bite OF
q mad dog had not yielded to inocu-
lation, that did not prove the Pasteur
method failure. On the contrary,
when the limited number OF the ex-
ceptions was taken into consideration
that fact went largely to sustain the
claim of NJ. Pasteur's friends that be
had made discovery OF the greatest
value to mankind. He claimed that
M. Peters assertion that the average
thirty deaths had occurred in Paris
last year required verfcation. 1t was
not proven, whilst the truth was that
there had only been sixteen deaths
amongst the bitten persons who had
sought from all parts the aid of M
Pasteur's hospital. There had
only been fourteen deaths dur
ing the past year in the hospital
out of $50 cases treated. DR.. Vul
plan then produced statistics from
the Pasteur Institute down to Decem
Der 81, 1886, as follows: Whole
number of persons treated from tn;
start, 1852; died, 31-or l. .15 per cent
OF dea his, against an ordinary NOR
tality before the method was discov
cred of Is per cent! M. Broardel
also disciple OF Pasteur, and wh'
has treated persons bitten b.
mad dogs by incubation, give
the following remarkable sta
tistics from the records OF the hos
pital over which he presides a
OucSsd, Out vi lUl CdScS III WHlCl
: simple treatment was followed, ther
were deaths, or ger cent. out G
50 cases in which mild treatmen
was followed, there was one death, o
per cent. out OF 140 cases in whicl
the ''intensive" treatment was fol
lowed, there were no deaths! Thi
sufficiently disposes of Mr.. Peter
objection to what he terms NJ Pas
teur's method of "intensive" inocu
, lation. The fact seems to be prove
that animal inoculation is effectiv
to cure hydrophobia; and as it is be
,, yond doubt that wonderful pei
centage Of cases treated have recov
cred, and equally certain that ther'
was no cure whatever for this dreat
malady before M. Pasteur made hi
famous discovery, the world will no
be slow to accord to that great sa
want the credit and fame which justl
belong to man who has done s.
much for humanity.